Robyn Brown
BCom/BSci (Hons) (Melb)
Brain Injury and Repair Group
Addiction Neuroscience Laboratory
Contact Details
Email: robyn.brown@florey.edu.au
Phone (office): +61 (0)3 8344 1869
Phone (lab): +61 (0)3 8344 7459
Supervisors
- Prof Andrew Lawrence, Howard Florey Institute
- Dr Jennifer Short, Monash University
PhD Project Title
- Characterisation of the adenosine A2A receptor in opiate reward
Research Interests
- Addiction neuroscience
- Behavioural pharmacology
Laboratory Techniques
- Reward/drug seeking behavioural techniques:
- Operant self-administration (intra-venous and oral) of drugs of abuse
- Behavioural sensitisation to drugs of abuse
- Conditioned place preference to drugs of abuse
- Standard behavioural phenotyping:
- Elevated plus maze
- light-dark box
- morris water maze
- Y-maze
- rotarod etc
- Neurochemical/molecular techniques:
- Free Floating Immunohistochemistry
- Autoradiography
- Golgi-Cox analysis
- Quantitative RT-PCR
- PCR
Publications and Articles
Parish, C.L, Nunan, J., Finkelstein, D.I, McNamara, F.N, Wong, J.Y., Waddington, J.L., Brown, R.M., Lawrence, A.J., Horne, M.K., Drago, J. Mice lacking the alpha4 nicotinic receptor subunit fail to modulate dopaminergic neuronal arbors and possess impaired dopamine transporter function.
Molecular Pharmacology, 2005, 68(5): 1376-86
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